Both Yahoo! Pulse and Yahoo! Meme easily allow the importation of external RSS feeds, and display the content, such as a blog post, in a Twitter-like truncated feed, with a shortened link. It is usually displayed as the blog post title, with the shortened link back to the original, and possibly a bit more.
One unexpected find was the fact that Yahoo! Meme posts are automatically sent to Yahoo! Pulse. So, the same RSS feed sent to both results in duplicate postings, or near duplicate postings, on Yahoo! Pulse. One comes from the direct RSS feed to Yahoo! Pulse and the other comes from the same feed echoing off of Yahoo! Meme. Therefore, I eliminate the feed to Yahoo! Pulse, and no harm done. It gets there anyway.
My personalized Yahoo! Pulse page is not accessible to the general public, and I have no idea if or how it may be visible to another Yahoo! member, or friend, or distant cousin. In other words, Yahoo! Pulse seems fairly useless to me.
Yahoo! Meme, on the other hand, is nice by providing a unique URL for my page there, which I named Ephemerality (http://meme.yahoo.com/ephemerality/) .
This is the same name I used on Tumblr.com.
Another unrelated discovery was my Yahoo! blog with the unique URL:
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WNBEBRWQHDKYV2ILHJOCNYKDH4/blog
It's nice to have a unique URL for my totally free Yahoo! blog space, but that URL is ridiculous.
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